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by fjarlq 14y ago
That rumor was reportedly a rhetorical question asked by Perlman during the last company meeting. Anybody know why they didn't use a flexible virtual server solution like Amazon EC2? "There's no way to exactly estimate how many servers we'
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Do you have evidence to support this claim?
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Andrew Bingham, the engineer of the hazcam dust covers, explains in detail: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29612.msg93... "These dust covers were one of the last things added to the rover. The MSL HazCams are build-to-
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Two-factor authentication should make it much harder for somebody to break into your email account (secret or otherwise) and reset your passwords. Instead of memorizing horrible passwords, have you tried making a non-horrible passphrase by
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by fjarlq 14y ago
No backup? Seriously? Wow. What do people like for backups these days? Crashplan seems pretty damn good to me.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
I've been able to get most of the old gmail interface back by following Jason Crawford's recommendations: http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-... The stuff I cared about anyway. I agree it is sad.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
I think the recent Flashback.K qualifies to some degree. All you had to do is visit an infected webpage and the Java applet would walk onto your system. It would immediately ask for admin privileges, but due to the huge Java hole it would h
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by fjarlq 14y ago
How much more ethical are Europe and the US?
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by fjarlq 14y ago
And the question mark fits with the conclusion of the article. Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Looks like ZNGA's lockup period has already expired: http://www.ifre.com/equities-zynga-insiders-race-to-cash-in-... "IPO underwriters controversially agreed to early waiver of a lock-up agreement preventing insider selling within 165 day
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by fjarlq 14y ago
An iPad 1 is not trash, even though it can't run iOS6. I suspect you'll be surprised how well it holds its value when you resell yours.
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But to many people, the difference between OSX and iOS is large. I think this is one of the reasons why iOS has been so much more successful than OSX. The closed, curated environment is much easier to use for many people. A natural extensio
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by fjarlq 14y ago
I think Yahoo's brand perception differs depending on the audience. The HN crowd seems to be pretty tired of Yahoo. I know I am. I'm disappointed that they never made a good Flickr mobile app, and sad about what Yahoo did with del.icio.us.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
With regular users in mind, how much of a problem is social engineering these days? A couple years ago some Cisco researchers infiltrated a botnet and got to interview the operator. They asked him what vulnerabilities he uses to grow his ne
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Man, Wednesday is the worst day to learn about Two Dollar Tuesday.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Doesn't the Minecraft server want to use 1+ GB of RAM? Will dotCloud really do that for free, in a usable longterm way?
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How?
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Considering the type of work that goes on at Oak Ridge, I'm not so sure they correctly calculated the true cost of using Windows and Internet Explorer....
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by fjarlq 14y ago
It suppose it takes time and maturity to realize that people have multiple competing goals, and are not perfectly selfless.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Great job, Nils. I didn't know Google doubles the reward if it goes to charity. I wonder why Microsoft doesn't have a similar program. Hotmail just got hacked pretty bad[1], and the hackers were selling the vulnerability for chump change in
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by fjarlq 15y ago
I'm running that exact config and it worked for me.
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by fjarlq 15y ago
There are also rumblings that those rumblings are nothing more than rumblings... http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120413PD205.html
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by fjarlq 15y ago
I wonder if the infection disables Software Update.
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by fjarlq 15y ago
Estimates vary... here's one: "It's estimated that at its peak Conficker infected more than 11 million PCs globally." -- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/reports/sec... Numbers in the range 15-25 million were also tossed
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by fjarlq 15y ago
I think it's interesting and good that Iceland is doing this. But the first thing I wonder is how many people does it affect? Some perspective: Iceland's population is about 320,000. Iceland has 103,000 square kilometers, roughly the size o
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by fjarlq 15y ago
Wired has a bit of additional coverage: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/zero-days-for-chrom...
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by fjarlq 15y ago
Good point. One question: > I'm not sure why FF was used for up. Did you mean "used for right"?
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by fjarlq 15y ago
A lot of computer viruses are spread by confused or ignorant people. It's not all about security holes....
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by fjarlq 15y ago
"According to Justin Schuh, a member of the Chrome security team, Glazunov's exploit was specific to Chrome and bypassed the browser sandbox entirely. "It didn't break out of the sandbox [but] it avoided the sandbox," Schuh said in an inte
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by fjarlq 15y ago
Deleting your [Facebook] account just makes you look like a weirdo in today’s world. I disagree. It's really not a big deal to be without a Facebook account.

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